- Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's fiction
In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes separated from her family.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Minfong Ho
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 174
- Publisher
- Holt Rinehart and Winston, McDougal Littell, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9789812043139
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“I HEARD A COWBELL.”
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